PEORIA, Ill. – Wichita State's Yared Kidane led the Shocker men to a fifth-place team finish out of 29 teams at Friday afternoon at the Bradley Pink Classic.
Kidane, a redshirt-junior from Sweden, raced to a fifth-place individual finish over 8K, leading the Shocker men to their fourth-straight top-five Bradley Pink Classic team finish. He ran a personal-best 23:57.95, his first career sub-24-minute performance.
Kidane sat in 53rd through the first 3K and moved up into the top 15 over the next 4K before running the fastest closing 1K of the day in 2:47.